food additive

English

Noun

food additive (plural food additives)

1. Any nonfood substance added to food in order to improve its flavour, appearance or shelf life.

Translations

non-food substance added to food

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食品添加劑 / 食品添加剂 (shípǐn tiānjiājì)

• Danish: tilsætningsmiddel n
• Finnish: elintarvikelisäaine, lisäaine (fi)
• French: additif alimentaire (fr) m
• Galician: aditivo alimentario (gl) m
• German: Lebensmittelzusatzstoff (de) m
• Italian: additivo alimentare m
• Japanese: 食品添加物 (ja) (しょくひんてんかぶつ, shokuhin tenkabutsu)
• Portuguese: aditivo alimentar m
• Russian: пищевая добавка (ru) f (piščevaja dobavka)
• Swedish: livsmedelstillsats (sv) c
• Turkish: gıda katkısı, gıda maddesi katkısı
• Vietnamese: phụ gia thực phẩm

See also

• E number
• list of food additives on Wikipedia